Most money found in a scrap car? - Page 2

Originally Posted by bejak

Worked in a service station until the early 90's went in and under the seats on every car I had time to. Endless list of stuff and lots of change and bills over the years.

is'nt that theft

Found 22 dollars in an old dryer one time. Thats right were talken cars. sorry!

when i was a kid i use to go out in the junkyard to search the cars to have money lol used to find everything ppls sin cards money u name it probably found it . lately sense i starting scrapping cars my last one i found a bunch of euros

Guess I Made myself look like the bad guy. Made many people happy returning lost wallets check books credit cards watches jewelry etc. Stuff I kept was under back seats with the gummy bears and moldy French fries. We detailed cars and this was part of the service for odor removal.

i found over $40 in a car my friend was cleaning out for a friend of his, and i spent it on 2 sets of strings

Originally Posted by skylinejack

That reminds me. When my dad passed away 6 years ago moma sent his little Toyota p/u over here. Took me 5 years to do anything with it. As I was going through it I found 2 of his old Swisher Sweets Cigars. Individually wrapped. Well, I kept em and that night I lit one up. Brought back so many great memories of him and I and all the good times we had. Best **** cigar I ever smoked. Gonna save the other one till next Fathers Day and smoke it with him at the graveyard. That's the best find in an automobile I've ever made.

Nice story, thanx for sharing. Good ol' dad eh buddy! lb

Originally Posted by Ptscrapper

I usually dont look for money because i just feel like its a waste of my precious time. But then again theres a lot of things that i should do when it comes to scrapping that i dont, oh well thats just how it goes i guess.

Hehe, well PT, looking for and picking up money, to me anyway, is Not a waste of my time. As a matter of fact I taught both of my children soon after they learned to walk, how to "eyeball" the ground, where ever we went. Believe it or not, once they got going at it, they were averaging 6 to 8 or 9 coins daily on a mile long walk to the closest mall and back. I taught them that it was a skill that they could utilize their whole life and those lost pennies and the other coins they'd find, all add up. They could count to a hundred, using their very own found coins, long before they went to kinder-garden. To this day, I'll still somehow find the time (a second or three) to scoop a penny up off the sidewalk as I'm passing by anyway. The squatting or bending involved while retrieving that cent, adds to my mini-multi exercise program for the day and helps keep me fairly fit. Anyway, each to his/her own, but wanted to share my Canadian 2 cents here in Ronny's thread. lb

Originally Posted by wescrapmetal

when i was a kid i use to go out in the junkyard to search the cars to have money lol used to find everything ppls sin cards money u name it probably found it . lately sense i starting scrapping cars my last one i found a bunch of euros

That's neat stuff Wes, I did similar in my late teens. Scrapyards used to let you tour around looking for your own parts back then but I'd be check'n ashtrays and the floor and any spaces between the seat and the tranny cover, under all the seats and then I'd jam my skinny hands into the space where the back of the back seat (in bench seat models back then) meets the seat of the back seat. Found a gold wedding band in one of the first cars I ever searched. That kinda hooked me on car searching. lb

I actually found $21 of my own money that I dropped between the seats and center console of my own car that I had to scrap after it got totaled. Over the years, loose change would fall from my pocket into the gap between the seat and console. Sometimes I even would drop it in the gap in an attempt to put it in the utility tray between the seats.

Then after the accident, I got a nice settlement check and bought the car back from the insurance company for $100 to reclaim all of the new parts that I put on it. I ended up selling the seats in the process and once I got that driver's seat off, I could see where all the change went.